On Valentine’s Day 2017, 35-year-old Sparki Sue Garlinghouse of Lebanon, Oregon, was found dead in the home she once shared with her estranged husband, Jason Allen Garlinghouse. The couple were in the middle of divorce and a custody dispute; Sparki often visited the house to get the children ready for school. That morning Jason called 911, saying his wife had attacked him and that he had shot her multiple times. Officers found Sparki on the floor with children’s backpacks and a set of keys in one hand and a large bread knife in her other open hand. An audio file recorded on Sparki’s cell phone captured her arrival, a cough and then a succession of gunshots.

Prosecutors said Jason ambushed Sparki, shot her eight times and then planted the knife to stage self-defense; he maintained he shot her in fear for his life. In May 2018 a jury found Jason Garlinghouse guilty of murder. The couple’s two children, who were not present at the shooting, were placed with relatives.

Does anyone have information about Sparki’s visits to that house or about the custody dispute that might shed light on what happened that morning?